Marking device.



H. J. POTTER.

MARKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION I'ILED JULY 13, '1912 1,079,928. Patented Nov. 25, 1913'.-

WITNESSES:

' A TTORNEY onrrun STATES PATENT oFFIo f HARRY J. POTTER, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO DENNISON MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHU- SETTS.

MARKING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY J. POTTER, citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Marking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates'to marking devices that are adapted to be attached to articles of merchandise of that class which comprises products of the textile arts and whereon may be inscribed the prices or other data relating to such articles, and the object of my invention is to provide, at little cost of manufacture, marking devices which may be quickly and securely attached to articles of merchandise made of cloth or material of like qualities and which may be handled without danger from pricking or lacerating ones fingers. I attain such object by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective showing a structure embodying my invention with a portion of one part removed, more clearly to show other parts thereof, Fig. 2 is a View of the same showing some parts in vertical section and other parts in side elevation, Fig. 3 is a plan view of same, Fig. 4 shows by a plan view a slightly modified form of my invention, Fig. 5 shows by a plan View of another modified form of the same, Fig. 6 illustrates a modified form of my invention wherein a view in perspective shows some parts, and a fragmentary view in perspective shows another part, Fig. 7 shows by perspective view a structure embodying my invention attached to a fragment of cloth while Fig. 8 is a view of my invention in side elevation as attached to a fragment of cloth.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts throughout the drawings.

In attaching to an article a marking device of the kind heretofore in common use several operations are required; the fabric being held by the hand while the two pin points of the ticket are pushed through such fabric with the other hand, then, holding the fabric and ticket with both hands, ones fingers may turn the pointed ends of the pins to bend them back beneath the fabric thus leaving the ticket on one side of the fabric while the pin-points are in an exposed posi- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 13, 1912.

Patented Nov. 25, 1913.

Serial No. 709,172.

tion on the other side of such fabric where such points are liable to lacerate ones hands when handling such fabric.

With a marking device embodying my invention one movement of one hand may securely attach such marking device to the fabric of an article, and its pin points will be concealed between the device and the fabric to which it is attached, thus by providing effective protection from the points of the pin-wire there is almost wholly eliminated the danger of pricking or lacerating ones fingers when attaching the marking device to merchandise or when handling merchandise to which such devices are attached.

A preferred form of my invention is illustrated by Fig. 1 wherein 13 is the lower ply and 12 is a fragmentary portion of an upper ply of a two ply ticket made of card-board or other suitable material, with which is associated an integral pin-wire fastening device comprising an S shaped back portion 11, a long pointed engaging member 16 and a shorter locking member 17. The S shaped portion 11, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2, is embedded between the lower ply 13 and portion 12 to form the engaging member 16 j and the-locking member 17 and dispose them as shown by perspective view in Fig. 1, by

view in side elevation in Fig. 2 and by plan view in F ig. 3. v i

The horizontal portions of the members 16 and 17 are disposed far, enough from the surface of the ticket to admit one or more thicknessesof the fabric of an article to enter between them and the ticket as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, while, as more clearly seen inFig. 3, the engaging member 16, at a point near the middle of its horizontal portion, is bent to form an offset 18, whose plane is parallel with the surface of the ticket, whereby the opposing locking member 17 is disposed to be in a direct line with that portion 19 of the engaging member 16 that is to the left of theoffset 18 while it is parallel with and adjacent to that portion 20 of the same member 16 that is to the right of said offset 18. i

It will be seen that the offset 18 may perform a very important function .sinceit is adapted to coact with the opposing locking 

